Thursday, July 28, 2016

Plutarch quote for the day: Get it right, you stupid bird

Julius Caesar, painted in 1892 by Clara Grosch

"Furthermore had not Caesar him selfe in person, and Asinius
Pollio with him gone out of the campe to the rescue, and
stayed them that fled : the warre that day had bene ended.
There was also an other skirmish where his enemies had
the upper hande, in the which it is reported, that Caesar
taking the ensigne bearer by the coller that caried the Eagle
in his hande, stayed him by force, and turning his face, tolde
him : See, there be thy enemies." ~~ Plutarch's Life of Julius Caesar, translated by Thomas North